- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:44:32 -0500
- To: Sören Auer <auer@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- CC: public-xg-rdb2rdf <public-xg-rdb2rdf@w3.org>, public-lod@w3.org, semantic-web@w3c.org
On 12/10/08 1:25 PM, Sören Auer wrote: > > Hi all, > > We were working in the last weeks on bringing geo data derived from > the marvelous OpenStreetMap project [1] to the data web. This work in > progress is still far from being finished, however, we would like to > share some first preliminary results: > > * A *vast amount of point-of-interest descriptions* was extracted from > OSM and published as Linked Data at <http://linkedgeodata.org> > > * The *Linked Geo Data browser and editor* (available at > <http://linkedgeodata.org/browser>) is a facet-based browser for geo > content, which uses an OLAP inspired hypercube for quickly retrieving > aggregated information about any user selected area on earth. > > Further information can be also found in our AKSW project description: > > <http://aksw.org/Projects/LinkedGeoData> > > Thanks go to Sebastian Dietzold, Jens Lehmann, Sebastian Hellmann, > David Aumueller and other members of the AKSW team for their > contributions. > > Merry Christmas to everybody from Leipzig > > Sören > > > [1] http://openstreetmap.org > Soren at Co., Very cool! -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President& CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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